On Sun, 01 May 2005 12:41:55 -0400
Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:38 +1000, Keith Bates wrote:
> > No, that just gives you option to open it with, but no permanent
> > association.
> >
> > What I'm really tring to do is open a pdf file using the sylpheed
> > email reader which is built on Gtk2. When you click on an
> > attachment you get options to "open" or "open with application."
> > When I click on "open" nothing happens. I'm assuming this is an
> > association problem somehwere in gnome.
>
> If you are using Gnome 2.8+ it does. You need to right-click and
> choose properties, the choose the Open With tab. It will say to pick
> a program to open foo.pdf and others of type .pdf
Thanks, I'd missed that.
Keith
>
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